New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat
Website trackers are used in order to aggregate enormous quantities of data.
Google And IAB In The Crosshairs Over RTB (Again)
Google and the IAB are once again under the EU’s gimlet eye.
France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent
Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35 million (~$42 million) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued on December 10.
Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story
Google employees who worked with Timnit Gebru are coming out publicly to dispute claims against the star AI ethics researcher.
Swedish court rejects Google’s appeal in RTBF case
The Swedish Court confirmed Google violated the GDPR in several instances and rejected Google’s motion.
Google Researcher Fired For Paper on AI Bias
Timnit Gebru, a well-respected Google researcher, one of the few Black women in her field, said she was fired by […]
Android apps with millions of downloads are vulnerable to serious attacks
Android apps with hundreds of millions of downloads are vulnerable to attacks that allow malicious apps to steal contacts, login […]
Google is adding end-to-end encryption to its Android Messages app
“We recognize that your conversations are private,” says Google. Google is upping the security for at least some of the […]
Folksam data breach leaks info of 1M Swedes to Google, Facebook, more
Folksam, one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden, today disclosed a data breach affecting around 1 million Swedes after […]
Google’s display advertising business is under antitrust probe in Italy
Italy’s competition authority has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s display ad business — adding another allegation of abuse of […]
EU parliament backs tighter rules on behavioural ads
The EU parliament has backed a call for tighter regulations on behavioral ads (aka microtargeting) in favor of less intrusive, […]
Google Releases Results From Early Tests Of Cohort-Based Advertising
For the past couple of months, Google has been actively testing its Privacy Sandbox proposal for interest-based cohorts, and the […]